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1876 150 years ago Selected Events October 4

Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state.

On October 4, in the year 1876, Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of October 4, a notable event in this corner of history.

Texas A&M University is a public land-grant research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. Since 2021, Texas A&M has enrolled the largest student body in the United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and since 2001 has been a member of the Association of American Universities.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on October 4, 1876 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
  • The event is associated with a specific geographical location (see map below).
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 27 September 2026.

On This Date in History

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2024 Oct 4 Christopher Ciccone, American artist (born 1960)
Notable Deaths 2024 Oct 4 Billy Shaw, American football player (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2022 Oct 4 Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 2020 Oct 4 Clark Middleton, American actor (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2020 Oct 4 Kenzō Takada, Japanese-French fashion designer (born 1939)
Historical Events 2017 Oct 4 Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 4 Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (born 1938)
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 4 Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (born 1934)
Notable Deaths 2015 Oct 4 Neal Walk, American basketball player (born 1948)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 4 Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 4 Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 4 Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1959)
Notable Deaths 2014 Oct 4 Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (born 1951)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (born 1958)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1911)
Notable Deaths 2013 Oct 4 Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 4 David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 4 Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1941)
Notable Deaths 2012 Oct 4 Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2011 Oct 4 Doris Belack, American actress (born 1926)
Historical Events 2010 Oct 4 The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring…
Notable Deaths 2010 Oct 4 Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (born 1915)
Notable Deaths 2009 Oct 4 Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 2009 Oct 4 Günther Rall, German general and pilot (born 1918)
Notable Deaths 2007 Oct 4 Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (born 1925)
Historical Events 2006 Oct 4 WikiLeaks is launched.
Notable Deaths 2005 Oct 4 Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1924)
Historical Events 2004 Oct 4 SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
Notable Deaths 2004 Oct 4 Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1927)
Historical Events 2003 Oct 4 The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
Notable Deaths 2003 Oct 4 Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)
Notable Deaths 2002 Oct 4 André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1926)
Historical Events 2001 Oct 4 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
Notable Deaths 2001 Oct 4 Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (born 1976)
Notable Deaths 2001 Oct 4 John Collins, American guitarist (born 1913)
Notable Deaths 2001 Oct 4 Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2000 Oct 4 Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (born 1914)
Notable Deaths 2000 Oct 4 Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
Notable Deaths 1999 Oct 4 Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 1999 Oct 4 Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths 1998 Oct 4 S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (born 1930)
Historical Events 1997 Oct 4 The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
Notable Births 1997 Oct 4 Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
Notable Births 1997 Oct 4 Yuju, South Korean singer
Notable Deaths 1997 Oct 4 Otto Ernst Remer, German general (born 1912)
Notable Deaths 1997 Oct 4 Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created the Game Boy (born 1941)
Notable Births 1996 Oct 4 Ella Balinska, English actress

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